Xuan Tan Eliminated in 7th place (HK$386,000)

Fedor Holz has been turning the screws on the rest of the table and is now sitting on a stack of over 900,000 while his next closest rival Gabe Patgorski is sitting on a much-reduced stack of 190,000.

However, it was Predrag Lekovic wielding the executioner’s axe this time around, making it 13,000 to go from under-the-gun. Action folded around to Xuan Tan in the big blind who played with his chips for a minute or so before deciding to re-raise to 50,000 in total, leaving himself roughly 60,000 behind.

Lekovic quickly announced that he was all-in and Tan beat him into the pot and the cards were turned over.

Xuan Tan:
Predrag Lekovic:

Tan did not look happy to discover his pocket kings we trailing to Lekovic’s pocket aces, and on a seven-handed table that’s certainly a rather unfortunate turn of events.

The Chinese player received no help from the poker gods either with the board running out with Lekovic making top set on the river just to rub salt into the wound. That was the last hand of the level as well and Tan departed in 7th place to become the first paying casualty, taking home $49,464 while Lekovic stacked up to 360,000.